Author Alysia Shoemaker

Alysia is a Colorado native and beer writer for 303 Magazine. On the weekends she can be found at the latest bottle release or visiting the newest breweries Colorado has to offer. Alysia’s other passions include exploring the mountains but only when it’s warm, checking out dog parks and hunting for the best tacos in town. There is no show she won’t go to and no bookstore she won’t explore.

When you are in a community that involves passion, exploration and delicious beers, it is hard to imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to join. However, sometimes people's love for a craft, in any field, can create...

The people of Denver and Colorado live outside this time of year and they are looking for a beer that bursts with flavor but won’t knock them out in the heat. Drive by any park or head up to any hiking trail in...

When it was announced that WeldWerks Brewing Company was going to host its first beer festival, the WeldWerks Invitational, this summer in Greeley — beer people across the state and even the country got excited...

We often talk about the craft beer community being a different sort of community. It embraces competition as friendly, helps each other out in times of need and is welcoming to different people as long as they ...

Denver Pride is in full effect and there are ways you can celebrate this weekend with a cold craft beer. While not every brewery will have specific events – they are showing support in other ways. Denver Beer C...

Over the past six to eight months Avery Brewing Company, one of the stalwarts of the Colorado craft beer scene, has over-gone tremendous change. All of this change can be traced back to November 28, 2017, when ...

Denver is a craft beer city – it is filled with perhaps some of the most knowledgeable and, let’s be honest, the most spoiled beer drinkers in the country. There is good beer everywhere and anything l...

Summertime in Colorado means one thing – it’s beer festival season. There might not be anything better than sipping unlimited samples of craft beer in the Colorado sunshine. There are local Denver festivals and...

There are breweries everywhere in Denver. There are over 70 of them and it’s growing every month so it would be fair to say you don’t have to wander far for a good beer. But maybe you don’t want to limit yourse...

There are breweries opening all over Colorado every single weekend. Each brewery brings something different to the table and the hype can be wrapped up in the style or the location. There is, to be honest, a ce...

Slap the bag. That’s probably not a term you ever thought you would hear when it comes to craft beer but the couple behind Primitive Beer in Longmont is asking you to do just that. Well, maybe not exactly slap ...

While you can never be certain of the weather in Colorado, it is safe to assume that the patio season has arrived in Denver. There is no shortage of great places you can enjoy a summer beer outside, and some ev...